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Former Senior Fellow for South and West Asia
December 30, 2003
Interview
See more in Pakistan
June 26, 2003
Interview
See more in Pakistan
October 14, 2005
Op-Ed
Slate
See more in Pakistan, Humanitarian Intervention
May 21, 2004
Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
See more in Pakistan, Society and Culture
June 6, 2002
Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
See more in India, Pakistan, Arms Control and Disarmament
October 2003
Task Force Report No. 49
Task Force Report
South Asia may be halfway around the globe from the United States, but what happens there—as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda tragically underscored—can affect all Americans. After the terrorist attacks and the massing of one million troops on the borders of nuclear-armed India and Pakistan in 2001, the critical importance of South Asia to global and U.S. national security is clear. Securing a moderate Muslim state in Pakistan, consolidating and deepening increasingly important U.S.-India ties, actively encouraging peaceful relations between India and Pakistan, and ensuring an Afghanistan in which terrorists can never again find shelter must be foreign policy priorities for the United States.
See more in India
June 2003
Task Force Report
The United States successfully toppled the Taliban in the Afghan war, but it is in danger of losing the peace following the conclusion of that war. Without greater international support for the transitional government of President Hamid Karzai, security in Afghanistan will deteriorate further, prospects for economic reconstruction will dim, and Afghanistan will revert to warlord-dominated anarchy. This failure could gravely erode America’s credibility around the globe and mark a major defeat in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, warns this informative chairmen’s report.
See more in Afghanistan
February 19, 2004
Transcript
See more in South Asia
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